Upon registration, you will receive a link to watch the film on your own. The film will be available for you to watch on Saturday, February 27; Sunday, February 28; and Wednesday, March 3rd. Please join us on Thursday, March 4th at 6:00pm CST for a Q&A with the film's director, Claudia Sparrow. Film link and Zoom link will be in your Eventbrite confirmation email.

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An indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who cannot read or write, stands up to the largest gold producer in the world, US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.

Máxima is fearlessly fighting to stop a multi-billion-dollar mining project launched by Newmont and partially financed by the World Bank. This project would forever destroy and contaminate critical water and land ecosystems. But without Máxima’s land, the project is not possible.

A land dispute quickly turns into a landmark case of human rights abuse. Newmont uses violence, intimidation and criminal prosecution - all the way to the Supreme Court - in an attempt to evict Máxima and her family.  However, the environment and hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, so Máxima fights on.

Throughout Máxima’s fight for justice, we reveal the mechanics of how a transnational corporation manages to get away with human rights and environmental crimes, The World’s Bank role in this, and the resilience of one woman who refuses to back down.

Upon registration, you will receive a link to watch the film on your own. The film will be available for you to watch on Saturday, February 27; Sunday, February 28; and Wednesday, March 3rd. Please join us on Thursday, March 4th at 6:00pm CST for a Q&A with the film's director, Claudia Sparrow. Film link and Zoom link will be in your Eventbrite confirmation email.

This event is sponsored by the Departments of Latin American and Latino Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Modern Languages, and the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University.